Lotus Womb Healing & Awakening

08/19/2018

BLACK BIRTHS MATTER

If you're black and pregnant, seek prenatal care as early as you are aware that you are caring for another life.

Black women are 3x as likely to have their child die within the first year, than any other race.

Be sure to have your doctor check your stress levels, check for lead poisoning, folic acid and vitamin d to ensure you are not at risk for premature birth or low birth weight.

08/19/2018

OUR PURPOSE IS TO HELP SAVE BABIES

08/19/2018

PRENATAL MENTAL HEALTH:101

LET'S TALK MENTAL HEALTH FACTS - RAISING THE INTELLECTUAL BAR ON BLACK PRENATAL MENTAL HEALTH

When women experience acute and chronic life stressors during pregnancy, maternal mental health issues can arise.

Yet differences in maternal mental health are also not enough to explain the gap in birth outcomes, as African American women have not consistently reported higher levels of stress during pregnancy.

However, women of color are not typically aware of mental health symptoms experienced during pregnancy and in the postpartum period.

This is due to a lack of knowledge regarding the signs and symptoms associated with mental health challenges. Maternal mental health issues among African American women are largely under-reported and symptoms often go unaddressed.

Moreover, mental health care is often inadequate to address the unique challenges they face as women of color, including race and gender discrimination in the workplace and beyond. These challenges have been linked to depression among this population.

While differences in maternal mental health may not be enough to explain the gap in birth outcomes between African American women and non-Hispanic white women, they should not be ignored. In order to address trends in adverse experiences during pregnancy and the postpartum period, policymakers should consider African American women’s lack of access to appropriate mental health care screening and services as well as the link between increased stress and maternal mental health.

ARE YOU AWARE OF YOUR PRENATAL MENTAL HEALTH STATUS?

DO YOU LOVE YOUR & YOUR BABY ENOUGH TO GET HELP?

ARE YOU WILLING TO LEARN ABOUT THE ADVERSE RISK FACTORS OF PRENATAL MENTAL HEALTH CAUSED BY STRESS & DEPRESSION?

IF YES, AND YOU LIVE IN ZIP CODES 53206 OR 53212, DON'T HESITATE TO CALL (414) 909-2325 PRENATAL MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT - PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE

08/19/2018

First Trimester Stress Linked To Brain Disorders

Findings indicate that the human fetus is exquisitely sensitive to physiological and psychological maternal stress, and prenatal stress can be measured with psychometric instruments. It has been proposed that prenatal maternal stress is linked to low birth weight (BW), lower BW, and smaller head circumference (HC). Studies also show that chronic prenatal maternal stress impairs fetal neurobehavioral development. Sandman et al found that prenatal maternal stress disrupted cognitive performance during infancy and decreased brain volume in areas associated with learning and memory in 6- to 8-year-old children.

If you are pregnant and are currently experiencing high-levels of stress, YOU ARE PLACING YOU AND YOUR BABY'S LIFE AT-RISK!!

Lotus Womb Healing & Awakening is here as a "Health Equity" Service Provider to provide relaxation and stress-relief services to at-risk mothers living in zip codes 53206 and 53212.

Our "Health Equity" Services will help you gain relaxation and stress-management via hot water therapy in our whirlpool tub; a "therapeutic" prenatal massage; simply balance your energy centre with our Shiatsu Acupressure Health Care Massage Chairs.

By joining Lotus Womb Healing & Awakening for your prenatal care coordination services (a benefit of Medicaid), we help you develop your "personalized" Stress-Management Therapy Plan, and you get weekly pre-natal massages, at no cost to you!!

To be eligible for our "Prenatal Care Coordination" Stress-Relief Services, you must live in zip codes 53206 and 53212.

Prenatal Care Coordination is a benefit of Medicaid

Contact us @ (414) 909-2325 to enroll in our "Health-Equity" Stress-Management Program for at-risk black mothers, and begin receiving your "Stress-Relief" Massages, ASAP. Please leave your name and number, and your call will be returned at our earliest convenience.

PLEASE SHARE WITH ANYONE YOU NOW THAT MAY BE EXPERIENCING STRESS, WHILE PREGNANT

08/19/2018

FETAL DEVELOPMENT: 101 - FETAL & INFANT MORTALITY AMONG BLACK MOTHERS

New CDC research shows that the occurrence of gastroschisis (pronounced GAS-tro-SKEE-sis)., a birth defect where a baby’s intestines stick outside of the body through a hole beside the belly button, continues to increase over time. Importantly, the causes for the continued increase in the number of babies born with gastroschisis are unknown, and public health research is urgently needed to uncover more clues.

Gastroschisis is a defect where the infant’s intestines protrude outside of the body usually through an opening on the right side of the baby’s abdominal wall. The intestines being exposed are at risk of swelling and irritation from the amniotic fluid surrounding it in the womb.

“Gastroschisis has tripled, rising 263 percent, in the Black community.”

January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month and one of the fastest rising birth defects among young black mothers is Gastroschisis (pronounced GAS...